These new paintings have their roots based upon experiences in my
youth and the times spent wandering around in my hometown, armed with
nothing less than a trusty Zenith 35mm camera, tripod and a cable
release and with a sense of wonder too, as I watched daytime turn to
dusk and into night, places of daytime familiarity taking on a new and
softer appearance bathed as they were in orange sodium streetlights.

The transition of daylight into night - twixt the twain - the
colours of foliage and grass darkening and looking as if they were
being stilled & embalmed as the encroaching darkness grew in
stature; the violent, eruptive & burning colours of the sunset
seared on evening clouds which were so prevelant in the 1980's,
possibly due to ash from the volcanic explosion of Mount St Helens;
the blue-black landscape silhouetted against far-off city lights and
encroaching suburban sprawl, the sodium glare reflected in the
floating clouds above whilst motorways, roads, avenues were
jewel-drops of light mapping out the populated areas.

I've brought those memories forward into my life now with these
works, though I'm incorporating more ideas into the theme; I'm
painting what I've seen either constantly or fleetingly, in my own
recognisable landscape or somewhere else imagined entirely, capturing
that certain time of day or place when the sun goes down, the dusk
clouds move in and night time begins - another day on this earth is
over and behind us.